Topic: Please add a approval of posts system upon registeration - page 2. (Read 497 times)

That's the reason why such a feature won't ever be implemented.  I've seen forums that do exactly what OP is suggesting, but they have far fewer members to deal with.  I forget the figure, but bitcointalk has multiple millions of registered users with thousands of new ones registering every month.  There's no way in hell mods would be able to approve posts.

I wasn't around for that, but I've certainly heard about it.  And while I agree with you that it really ought to be brought back, I do believe I've read that Theymos isn't even considering it.  That's unfortunate, IMO.

According to Alex_Sr's thread here (Statistics of user registrations on Bitcointalk 2017-2019), we are currently looking at around 20,000 new accounts per month, but we were over ten times as high during the height of the bull run.

It is impossible to know how many of those accounts would have had their first post deleted under this new system. There is no way we would ban these accounts for making one poor post, and so it is impossible to quantify how many would go on to make a second, third, fourth, tenth, twentieth, etc. post which would also need to be reviewed under such a system before they were "whitelisted". There is obviously also accounts which are created and do not post.

Given all these unknowns, we can't know for sure how many posts the mods are going to have to deal with. Given the small number of newbies who earn even a single merit, I suspect that the vast majority would be making at least 5 or so posts before they were either whitelisted or they gave up. I would take a wild guess at the mods having to deal with somewhere around 3,000 or so posts a day, which I think is pretty unfeasible. This number would increase massively if we see another spike in registrations during the next bull run.

Regardless, theymos has been pretty clear in the past about his reluctance to re-introduce newbie jail or any other kind of blanket restriction on newbies, and I tend to agree with that. A system like this is also going to turn away a great deal many of good and interested newbies, and that's the last thing we want for the future of the forum.

Perhaps a better option to have dealt with the recent spam attack would be to give global mods or a slightly larger subset of the mods the ability to auto-ban all accounts posting a specific phrase or link.

Nice idea. Impossible to implement in reality. There's too many to handle.

Newbie jail was a reality when I joined. I think it should absolutely definitely make a comeback. It's automated, easy to understand and erases most problems. Lots of other forums have a similar system, but if it's not the owner's will then it won't happen.

This is against the rules though they are offering an incentive to post by requiring members to post on their thread. I have now reported that thread so if anything this works in the favor of the OP's suggestion that if these were in a queue the moderators might see that this thread is requiring members to post proof of authentication and is offering an incentive to do it.

Looking at that thread they have also been registering many alt accounts and quoting the original topic to bump the thread further. 

This feature is present in other forums but not here even though they allow multiple accounts to register from 1 IP. With the result we have such posts:



Since the OP requires users to post their ID, newbies are creating accounts just to post it. The thread was locked earlier but they reopened it.

Its a good idea except consider all of the members who haven't yet got 1 merit its probably in the thousands I don't think the current moderators would be able to deal with that amount of posts a day. Considering the average member probably posts more than 5 posts a day and this forum being quite active. I'm not sure how many daily users we have here on the forum but I would think its over 30k members which aren't all ranked members.

Hoping the guys with the statistics can back up this claim and provide recently active members that have yet to earn 1 merit. Just think of how many posts are posted in the altcoin sub forum alone by bounty members etc. Often these aren't ranked members and some bounty campaigns require several updates a day.

That would be unfair to newbies who needed the answer immediately. By the time the question has been approved for posting, there is a chance that answers will no longer become relevant to the OP. I have seen this case happen in a lot of facebook groups.

Theymos states that he does not has intention to bring Newbie Jail back. If there are things to do, it is to destroy the whole signature campaign industry, that theymos really does not want to do.
Who will check those posts stay in queue?

It did sound familiar at first...


Personally, I see this looks a poor solution; admins/mods would get thousands of posts to verify, on top of their already existing workload.

Spam will always happen, but the luckily, every member can report it, so that mods can nuke the accounts.

This is how the system should work:

1. User registration
2. User posts to whatever sub forum they would like too
3. The users post isn't displayed publicly
4. The post enters a queue which can be accepted or rejected

The idea behind this suggestion is to prevent people abusing how easy it is to register on this forum and spam their advertisement, viruses or whatever their malicious purposes are for registering. We recently had spambots register and were spreading their links to advertise their service this could have been avoided with this suggestion.

When the post is posted it appears publicly to the member who posted it but not to the rest of the forum. The post will then enter a queue which staff members get to accept or reject. Rejecting the post will in turn delete it and send a notification to the member to notify them that their post was deleted. This message should not mention that each post has to be approved before being submitted but I guess this will become public knowledge sooner rather than later.

In addition to staff members handling these posts I think we should open up the possibility of merit sources dealing with them too. Merit sources are not required to do it but they can volunteer their services if they would like too. After all merit sources are suppose to be on the look out for good posts and this would in turn allow them to merit good first posts and reject posts they think is spam.

I think this approval system should be in place until the member has either been whitelisted by a member of staff or received at least 1 merit. What do you guys think of this?